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So What is HSA, Exactly?

Your APU with HSA = A Team of Specialists

You can think of HSA as a team with different players lending their unique talents to form one powerful unit. The CPU leads the system through everyday tasks. The GPU can zoom its way through tasks that are particularly data-intensive. Other components work together with the CPU and GPU in various, specialized processing tasks. With each member of the team performing a task that is especially suited to it, the efficiencies are designed to give you an enormous boost in performance.

AMD True-Audio Technology – What's the Difference?

Your Games Now Sound as Good as They Look¹

The expectations of gamers have never been higher. Graphics quality and processing speed have advanced rapidly, and the games of today are light years ahead of those from just a few years ago. But advancements in game audio have been more sporadic and less widely adopted. Sound is a critically important part of the immersive experience for gamers and sound engineers are eager to advance their art, but they haven't enjoyed the same kind of attention that continually drives graphics improvements. That is, until now.

AMD's Revolutionary Mantle

AMD's Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC. Read on to discover how AMD is working with the game development community to revolutionize the PC gaming experience.

What Mantle Does

Mantle is the Harmony of Three Essential Ingredients:

A driver within the AMD Catalyst™ software suite that lets applications speak directly to the Graphics Core Next architecture;

A GPU or APU enabled with the Graphics Core Next architecture;

An application or game written to take advantage of Mantle.

Mantle reduces the CPU's workload by giving developers a way to talk to the GPU directly with much less translation. With less work for the CPU to do, programmers can squeeze much more performance from a system, delivering the greatest benefits in gaming systems where the CPU can be the bottleneck.

What it Means for Gamers

Now that Mantle has freed up some extra CPU capacity, we expect Mantle will lead to better games, and more of them, since Mantle makes game development easier. That's not all Mantle will do for gamers. By shifting work to the GPU, a mid-range or older CPU isn't the same handicap it was before. With Mantle, the GPU becomes the critical part of the system, and GPU upgrades will have a bigger impact than before.

Mantle Videos

Current Mantle Games

Battlefield™ HardlineBattlefield Hardline brings the enormously successful Battlefield series to the streets of Miami. Battle crooks and corrupt cops in a variety of new game modes as you strive to bring peace to the sun-soaked streets.

Dragon Age™: InquisitionLead a team of heroes on a perilous journey through a living, open world. Discover the dramatic world of Thedas, from war-torn plains to jagged coasts, in the upcoming action RPG from BioWare, the creators of Mass Effect™.

Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden WarfareShooters just got weird. Plants vs. Zombies is digging into the trenches with an explosive new action experience. Blast zombies, plants and new characters across a mine-blowing PvZ world. Take on Co-op and Multiplayer action with your friends and sow the?? seeds of victory!

Star Citizen by Roberts Space IndustriesThis highly anticipated space epic by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame is promised to challenge gamers' systems. The use of Mantle minimizes the compromises gamers and developers have to make.

Nitrous Game Engine by OxideStill in the development stages, the Nitrous game engine by Oxide Games is built to take advantage of Mantle's performance advantage. Their Star Swarm demo illustrates the tremendous capacity of a Mantle-optimized game engine.

Sniper Elite 3 by Rebellion DevelopmentsThe third installment of this stalker/shooter title leverages the Mantle API to give gamers the best gaming experience. Shooting at long ranges, every frame per second counts.

GCN Architecture

Available on select AMD Radeon™ R7 series, R9 series and HD 7000 series graphics cards, the visionary
Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architectureis a radically new approach to the design of a consumer GPU, making it a top choice for gamers who expect the best.

Designed to push not only the boundaries of DirectX® 11 gaming, the GCN Architecture is also AMD's first design specifically engineered for general computing. Representing the cutting edge of AMD's graphics expertise, GCN GPUs are more than capable of handling workloads-and programming languages-traditionally exclusive to the main processor. Coupled with the dramatic rise of GPU-aware programming languages like C++ AMP and OpenCL™, the GCN Architecture is the right architecture at the right time.

Footnotes

1. AMD TrueAudio™ technology is offered on select AMD Radeon™ R9 and R7 200 Series GPUs and is designed to improve acoustic realism. Requires an enabled game or application. Not all audio equipment supports all audio effects; additional audio equipment may be required for some audio effects. Not all products feature all technologies—check with your component or system manufacturer for specific capabilities.
2. AMD Turbo Core technology is available only with select AMD A-Series accelerated processing units.
3. Mantle application support is required.
4. The GCN architecture and its associated features (AMD Enduro™, AMD ZeroCore Power technology, DDM Audio, and 28nm production) are exclusive to the AMD Radeon™ HD 7700M, HD 7800M and HD 7900M Series Graphics and select AMD A-Series APUs. Not all technologies are supported in all system configurations—check with your system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.

Quick Info

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Rating: 5/5A10-7700k

Pros: can handle anything I've thrown at it, seems to run cool (see cons), low power, great APU for the overkill HTPC

Cons: biggest con of it is the heatsink and fan. while this isn't a fault of AMD, the aftermarket is sparse for good, small, quiet coolers that can fit into a cramped HTPC case without issue. (see other thoughts)

temp sensors read wrong as well, temps will sometimes differ from what software your using or even in the BIOS. I've seen this issue on all the APUs I've used so far. not much to go on but, it feels like it runs cool when I touch the heat sink.

Other Thoughts: I replaced the stock cooler for the stock copper cooler that came with my old Phenom II 965, turns out the mounting points are the same for AM3 and FM2+ so it worked out pretty well.

Cons: Over heats when i am trying to play my game. Runs high 80's Celsius with stock fan. Had to order a new CPU cooler. Had to turn down all my graphics in order to play or my CPU will over heat and crash the PC. Hopeing when i get my new Cooler i will be able to turn up the graphics and be able to use my New R9 290x the way i should be.

Rating: 5/5Great CPU and GPU

Pros: Fast and cheap, and the APU aspect really flys when you add in a discrete GPU. Little known fact about the APU is that you can Crossfire it to a R7 Card of type. Doesn't bog down easily, and for a Quad core at the price it is quite astounding. It also runs cool, even a cheap heatsink like a CoolerMaster T2. No more than 130 degrees Fahrenheit under full load.

Cons: The heatsink included, to be 100% honest, is terrable. I would, without doubt, to buy an aftermarket heatsink.

Rating: 3/5Happy but not...

Pros: The processor is an awesome bang for your buck. Quick, responsive, happy with purchase!

Cons: The stock heat sink is GARBAGE. It doesn't keep it near cool enough to even be comfortable with using the processor. You have to use a 3rd party heat sink if you plan on purchasing this processor. Running at 58c-63c with stock cooler. You MUST get a different heat sink! The stock heat sink doesn't even cover the entire processor!

Other Thoughts: Very happy with purchase, took off two eggs considering the processor doesn't even come with a heat sink that will even keep it cool enough to use out of the box!

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